Sunday, October 21, 2012

5th Grade COMIC YOU!

Students look for themes in his work and at the variety
of different mediums he used to produce art during his lifetime.

This assignment has 3 equally important components.

The Background

The Comic Portrait

The Speech/ Thought Bubble

BACKGROUND

When we create the background we discuss good and
bad design by placing simple, primary color shapes on paper.

It’s not as easy as it seems. Students have to
really take their time to arrange and rearrange their pieces so that the shapes
themselves are interesting to look at.

COMIC YOU

Then we practice drawing like a comic and creating
our own facial expressions. My students do a lot of practice and draft work in
order to get to the big, bold, final drawing.

We have a lot of fun talking about old comic and
the dots many works by Lichtenstein. This year I gave my students the option to
thoughtfully add dots to their project, if they wish, using bubble wrap and
tempera paint.

SPEECH &or THOUGHT BUBBLE

As they work students are constantly thinking about
a text that could go with their final portrait. We discuss how adding text to a
work of art can either help or hurt it so we have to be very very careful about
what we write and how we write it.

About

Michele here. K-6 Art Educator & K-12 Gifted Support Teacher, sharing my classroom one post at a time. Teaching Art is a large part of who I am. I love my job!!!! I love Art!!! There is no greater feeling than seeing young students connect to the world around them through creativity and imagination. Follow me on Twitter @MComp_OliveART & Instagram @GWDES_Arts